Retraining Brain's Protective Mode: Ben Ahrens' Path to Recovery

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Published 2023-12-04
In this video, Ben Ahrens talks abut the brain's surprising ability to "rewire" itself out of illness by retraining its responses to stress.

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MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
🏠    • Brain Training DEEP DIVE - Ben's Seve...   - Ben's Severe Illness Full Recovery Story
📖 Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy - jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticl…
📖 Chronic social stress: effects on limbic brain structures - doi.org/10.1016/s0031-9384(03)00161-6
📖 Mitrovic, I., Peña, L.F., Frassetto, L.A., & Mellin, L.M. (2011). Rewiring the stress response: A new paradigm for health care.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - ✨ Introducing Ben Ahrens, Co-founder of Re-Origin
01:58 - 💪 Ben's Fascination with Body Conditioning
02:56 - 🤕 How He Completely Lost His Health
03:58 - 🖥️ Computer Analogy for Chronic Illness
07:12 - ⚖️ Explaining the Brain's Allostatic Load
10:39 - 🌈 Why It Feel As If Your Brain Turned On You
11:29 - 🤯 Brain's Misguided Protection Mechanism
15:10 - 👉 How to Rewire the Stress Response
19:34 - 🧘‍♂️ Simple Exercises to Calm the Nervous System
23:34 - 🏃‍♂️ Managing Stress Responses for Healing
29:00 - 🎓 Can Full Recovery Be Achieved?
30:03 - 🛠 Applying Brain Retraining Tools Long-Term
31:35 - 📚 Ben's Most Important Recommendation


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All Comments (21)
  • @Dragonfly20233
    Raelan and Ben, I think ya'll are fantastic and I'd love to see more collaboration from you guys. You have a back and forth that is very helpful for understanding. I am fully healed in my nervous system after 2 years of integrated nervous system, somatic and brain retraining work, but I often tell people that I am 100 percent healed but also 100 percent human. The food I ate yesterday isn't going to sustain me tomorrow so some things we have to keep putting on our plates. I find getting to the place where future illness or symptoms no longer are a place of fear but simply just an inevitable part of reality and not have that be too triggering really is a great litmus test for how much of that urgency we still have in our system. Ben, I hope to have my 17-year-old son go through your program before he leaves for college as I think hearing things from the male lens is very helpful for young men and will hopefully help him avoid some of the pitfalls of life at University and the stress of leaving home.
  • @yumzsid
    I signed up for Ben's program this past summer because of the first interview he did with you Raelen! I knew if I was gonna watch dozens of videos of someone talking, it better be a voice and a way of communication that appeals to me! The Re-origin program has been great!
  • @nolamayer4101
    Love listening to Ben, he is so logical, compassionate and caring. Thank you 🥰
  • @BlackDogArtworks
    I agree with what you’ve both said, that brain retraining provides a pathway to your body being able to self regulate in a healthful and positive way.
  • @henwilki6693
    Sign up, Re-Origin has been awesome for me too!!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏 though I must say- it takes tremendous commitment and a whole lot of open minded thinking. Keep the fire 🔥❤️
  • @kaylaberry7983
    This is my first time hearing his approach and it’s so fascinating. I love knowing my brain can heal like a scratch. I have been retraining for the past 6 months and I have more energy but I’m having increased symptoms with the season change, time change, holidays. These were things that were so exciting for me my entire life until the hypersensitive nervous system started in 2020. I had several things that caused this but I can certainly list them and know how they all impacted me.
  • @dawnowens2345
    This is so good in relation to long covid as well thank you so much.
  • @Peter-mo3pr
    I absolutely love your videos, they really provide hope. I'm surprised to see you haven't covered a treatment called the stellate ganglion block. I've seen an awful lot of anecdotal reports where people have been cured or had huge relief from this treatment. It's reported to reset the nervous system.
  • Raelan please try to interview Brea Katrin! She has amazing story of recovery and she is now a coach. She helped my recovery immensely. She has some classes online but her YouTube channel is so valuable on its own! She’s specifically a great resource for Christians seeking to include God in their healing journey
  • Another insightful video. A good start to my day. Onward! Thank you Raelan and Ben.
  • @AnrupB
    So good together that even their clothes and rooms are color coordinated. 😂 Raelan, that pink lamp is so cute!
  • So Helpful! Thank You 🙏 I was born into a controlling religion and married a very controlling man. I became very stress sick at 50. Luckily he divorced me and I had some freedom but carrying much guilt from the religion. Life has forced me back in the same house with him. I am partially paralyzed from this man still trying to control and judge me and the memory comes back but I am 79 and unable to take care of myself. I feel doomed! 😊❤
  • @juliaa3vb732
    This really was an incredible!! helpful video. The information as well as the tools, loved this. It's going into my "favorites" section to re-watch! Thank you both!!